RPC IV.4, 403

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 403
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ɛ = 5
Dating AD 141/2
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ(Α)] ΚΑΙϹ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ (?)
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνῖνος Αὐτοκρά(τωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Hadrianus Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription [L Ε]
Edition ἔτους εʹ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation of year 5
Reverse design laureate-headed and draped archaizing bust of Apollo, right; to right, laurel-branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 21.07 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Note Identified by Dattari as Euthenia (D 2550). Presumably Apollo, cf. Delphi: RPC online IV.1, temp. no. 5055. Long ringlets also for Apollo Didymeus cf. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/23044.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1950,1006.209 BMC Suppl 3017
2 2     P: 2400 SNG 2739